Apparatus foe barometers



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RECORDING APPARATUS POR BAROMRTRRS, RG. No. 334,613. Patented Jan. 19, 1886.

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No. 334,613. Patented Jan. 1'9, 1886.

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IlNrTs STATES PATENT Trice.

JULES RICHARD, OF PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR TO THE SGOIETE RICHARD FRERES, OF SAME PLACE.

RCRDlNG APPARATUS FOR BAROMETERS, dac.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 33',6l3, dated January 19, 1886.

Application filed October .'30, 1885. Serial No. 181,423.

I To @ZZ whom it' may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JULES RICHARD, a citi- Zen of the French Republic, and a resident of Paris, France, have invented certain Improvements in Recording-lnstruments for Barometers. 8:0.,(for which apatent has been granted in France,dated August 26, 1880,No. 139,070,) of which the following is a specification.

My instrument is especially useful for rero cording automatically the fluctuations in barometers, thermometers, anemometers, manometers, and otherinstruments of this character; and my invention relates to that class of recorders wherein the paper on which the record is made is carried on a drum which is revolved by a clock-train, and wherein the instrument whose fluctuations are to be recorded carries a pen or other markinginstrument, which is held in contact with the paper.

The novel features of my invention consist mainly, in the means whereby the errors, if any, in the record ot' the instrument as coinpared with a standard instrument may be corrected.

All of the novel features will be hereinafter fully described, and carefully defined in the claims.

Figures 1 and 2 illustrate the application of my recording apparatus to an aneroid barometer.v Fig. l is a side elevation of' the apparatus complete with the exterior casing in section, and Fig. 2 is a plan ofthe same with the exterior casing removed. Fig. 2a is -a longitudinal vertical section through the base of the apparatus on line 2fL 2 in Fig. 2. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal axial section of the recorderdrum. Figs. l and 5 are detached viewsillustrating the spring-clamp for holding the paper fast on the recorder-drum, the formershowing 4o the clamp loosened from the druni,and the latter showing it in place and clamping the paper into the drum. Figs. 6 and 7 are respectively a vertical section and a plan ofthe pen,shown on a much larger scale than the other gures. The section in which Fig. 6 is taken is indi- Vcated by the line 6 6 in Fig. 7. Figs. 8 and 9 are views of the same character,respectively, as Figs. l and 2, but illustrate the application (No model.)

Patented in France August 26, 1880, No. 139,070.

of my apparatus to a Bourdon tube-thermometer. 5o

Referring to the first seven figures, A is the recorder-drum provided with two heads, a and c,and rotatively mounted on a fixed axis,

C. The milled nut E keeps the drum in place on the axis C, yet allows it to be readily slipped off by removing said nut.

Bis the clock-train, which is mounted in the drum on its head a', and drives a satellite pinion, F, which is mounted exteriorly on an arbor which projects from the train through 6o head c. This pinion F meshes with a spurwheel,D,fixed on the axis @,and thus through the rotation ot the pinion the drum is rotated on its axis G. This construction has the advantage that the drum andcloclr-train may be removed at any time and in a moment by simply removing nut E. By reason of' this construction, also, if the wheels D and F be constructed as change-wheels,varying rotative speeds may at will be imparted to the drum. 7o To effect this will require no more than the ordinary skill of a mechanic.

G is the sheet of paper to be wound on the drum to receive the record. This sheet is fixed to the drum by lapping its two meeting edges one over the other and clamping it by the novel spring-clamp J. (Illustrated best in Figs. 4 and 5.) This clamp is made of a thin elastic plate, prelerably ot' metal, one end ot' which passes through a rectangular aperture or mortise, o, in the projecting flange c of the drum A, and the other end of which has a hook, d, which takes over the upper edge of the drum. The hook is made to engage by pushing the spring-clamp endwise. The spring-clamp is curved normally, as seen in Fig. et, with its convex face next the drum, whereby, when it is brought down flat, as seen in Fig. 5, it will be under some tension and will clamp the paper down firmly upon the drum.

I am aware that a hinged bar with aspringlatch at its end and perforated for the passage of pins fixed in the drum has been employed for securing the paper on the drum of a re- 95 cordng-instrument, and this I do not claim.

My springclamp is not connected to the drum by a hinge, but has end play, as described. Vhen the drum has completed one revolution, the paper bearing the record is taken off and replaced by a fresh sheet.

I havc shown the drum arranged to revolve once in a week, and have shown the paper furnished with parallel lines s,which measure 'the degree of iiuctuation of the barometer.

These lines extend lengthwise of the paper and around the drum. Thepaper is also provided with curved parallel lines s', which extend lengthwise ofthe drum and serve to mark divisions of time. They are curved for the reason that the marking-pen (which will be hereinafter described) moves in a curve in recording the liuctuations. The curve of lines s corresponds to that ot' the path traversed by the pen.

I is the peu, which is xed to the free end of an arm, H, pivoted at b to a suitable support. The arm H is elastic and keeps the pen I pressed up against the paper on the drum. This pressure is, or may be, regulated by means of an adjusting-screw, u.

L is an aneroid barometer, vmade up of a number of shells or drum-like parts connected together, as shown, and mounted ou a base. The uppermost disk or plate of the top shell will rise and i'all under the inuence of iuctuations in the atmospheric pressure to an extent equal to the sum of the movements caused by expansion and contraction of all the shells. The uppermost disk of the barometer is connected to the arm H of the-pen through the medium ot' a rock-lever, t, one end of which is coupled by a link to the barometerdisk, and the other end by a link to au arm on the pen-axis, or it may be to the pen-arm itself. Thus it will be seen that any rise ofthe uppermost disk ot' the barometer will depress the pen, while any fall ot' the barometer-disk will cause the pen to rise. The pen may be raised from the surface of the paper by means of a rod, K, the lower end ot' which is fixed to an elbow-lever, K', mounted in the base of the apparatus with its operating-arm projecting, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

N is the casing or box which incloses the instrument. It may have glass sides, as indicated iu Fig. l.

In the course of time a change will ltake placein the metal of the barometer which will render it incorrect by the displacement of the zero-point on the scale-as compared with a standardthat is to say, the barometer will mark correctly the fluctuations, but the record will be above or below the proper point. To correct this I provide means i'or raising and lowering` the barometer as a Whole until the pen stands at the proper elevation at a given time when tested by a standard. In the bottomof the case is a plate, O', upon which is mounted all ot the mechanism of the instrument, except the barometer L. On the under side of this plate O is mounted (see Fig. 2") at its one end a spring-plate, M, on the free end of which is mounted the barometer L. This plate is provided with an adjusting and set screw, q, whereby its free end may be adjusted up and down a little, so as to raise and lower the barometer with respect to the remainder of the mechanism. erates in a Well-known way and Will need noA further description.

The pen Lwhich serves to trace the line on the paper inrrecording, is clearly illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7. It is in the form of an inverted pyramid constructed hollowto retain ink. Iconstructitbybendingupaplateofthin sheet metal. The vertical face g is provided with suitable clips,which embace and clasp a handle or stem, p, that forms the extremity of the arm H. The pen may be readily slipped on or off the arm. The point f ot' the pen is slitted down in the line or" the lower angle in order to cause a iiow of ink as in an ordinary pen. I usually employ an aniline ink mixed with a little'glycerine to prevent it from drying, and a drop or two in the hopper-like hollow of the pen will suffice.

As stated before, Figs. 8 and 9 illust-rate the application of my improved drum and pen to record the fluctuations of a thermometer. The thermometer shown is that known as the Bourdom which employs a curved and tlattened metallic tube. This tube is filled with alcohol and hermetically closed. The dilatation 'of the alcohol changes the curvature of the tube. The drum and pen are the same as those previously described.

O is the curved and flattened tube, which is attached at its one end, r, to a bracket-plate, k, mounted on the casing of the apparatus. The free end s ot' the tube changes its position iu accordance with the changes of temperature, and it is only necessary to measure and record lthese changes. This I effect by means of my improved mechanism. t', made fast to the end s of the tube O to prolong the latter, is coupled by a link to an arm ou the axis b of the pen-arm H. Thus the movements of the extremity s of tube O are magniiied and communicated to the pen in a way that will be well understood.

The object in placing the thermometer-tube O exterior to the casing NA is that it may record the temperature exterior to the casing. In order tobeable to set the pen I to the zero-line on the drum when the temperature is at zero in the primary adjustment and to correct any error that may in course ottime arise from molecular movements in the metal ofthe tube O, I pivot the end r of the tube O in the bracket-plate lc and rigidly tix to it an arm, m, the free end of which takes under a collar on a screw-stud, Z, which screws into plate k. A spring, u, is arranged between plate 7c and arm m. By turning this screw the pen may be adjusted up or down, as described, and thus brought to coincide with the proper line on the drum, as determined, for example, by a standard thermometer.

The screw q op- IOO A rod,

.My recording apparatus may be aswell applied to psychrometers, hygrometers, manometers, evaporometers, vacuum-indicators, pluviometers, submerged thermometers, statoscopes, tube or ball actinometers, pyrometers, &c.

I have herein given two of the more important of its applications.

Having thus described my invention, Il

the plate O on which the above-named parts are mounted, of the barometer L, the springplate M, on which said barometer is mounted, and the screw q, for adjusting the spring-plate M, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combnation,with the drum A, provided with a mortise in its flange to receive the end ot' the normally curved and elastic spring-clamp J, ot' the said clamp J, constructed to play longitudinally through said mortise, and provided with a hook, d. to engage the d ru m-margin. whereby said hook may be engaged and disengaged by the longitudinal movement of the clamp, as set forth.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in tbe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JULES RICHARD.

iitnesses:

IloB'r. M. I-IooPER, AMAND RITTER. 

